Personal Injury Law in Virginia

Professor Kent Sinclair is Professor of Law Emeritus and has served as Associate Dean at the University of Virginia School Of Law, where he has taught Evidence, Civil Procedure and Virginia Practice for 35 years. Professor Sinclair served as a United States Magistrate Judge for seven years. He currently serves as Reporter of Decisions for the Supreme Court of Virginia, chair of the Advisory Committee on Rules of Court for the Commonwealth, and reporter for the Boyd-Graves Conference Evidence Project. He is a frequent lecturer on Virginia practice & procedure and the law of evidence to judges’ groups and lawyer CLE programs. He has served as an expert commentator for the LexisNexis legal research service, and has been accepted as an expert on Virginia law by the High Court of London, by the High Court of the Netherlands, and by the High Court of Australia. He is author of Sinclair on Virginia Remedies, and Personal Injury Law in Virginia. He is co-author of Sinclair & Middleditch, Virginia Civil Procedure, Friend & Sinclair, Virginia Pleading & Practice, and several other books. Professor Sinclair served for more than 20 years as editor and reporter for the four-volume Virginia Model Jury Instructions.